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empowerment realized through the Holy Spirit, Truth denounced spiritual and political evils in her own voice. She may have been filled with the Spirit, but by the very act of naming herself Truth proclaimed herself an actor. And the action she took was the advocacy of rights: the rights of African-Americans and of women. Ironically, the inspiration of the Spirit prepared this uneducated woman to challenge the republic within the framework of natural philosophy and the republican paradigm. Human equality and nat-ural rights became her language and the focus of her activism, albeit framed by the fiery millennial vision of evangelicalism. To read Sojourner Truth is to understand that the power of the Spirit was indeed an unpredictable, sub-versive, even dangerous force. Notes
DOI link for empowerment realized through the Holy Spirit, Truth denounced spiritual and political evils in her own voice. She may have been filled with the Spirit, but by the very act of naming herself Truth proclaimed herself an actor. And the action she took was the advocacy of rights: the rights of African-Americans and of women. Ironically, the inspiration of the Spirit prepared this uneducated woman to challenge the republic within the framework of natural philosophy and the republican paradigm. Human equality and nat-ural rights became her language and the focus of her activism, albeit framed by the fiery millennial vision of evangelicalism. To read Sojourner Truth is to understand that the power of the Spirit was indeed an unpredictable, sub-versive, even dangerous force. Notes
empowerment realized through the Holy Spirit, Truth denounced spiritual and political evils in her own voice. She may have been filled with the Spirit, but by the very act of naming herself Truth proclaimed herself an actor. And the action she took was the advocacy of rights: the rights of African-Americans and of women. Ironically, the inspiration of the Spirit prepared this uneducated woman to challenge the republic within the framework of natural philosophy and the republican paradigm. Human equality and nat-ural rights became her language and the focus of her activism, albeit framed by the fiery millennial vision of evangelicalism. To read Sojourner Truth is to understand that the power of the Spirit was indeed an unpredictable, sub-versive, even dangerous force. Notes
ABSTRACT
America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980; M. Ryan, ‘Ceremonial space: public celebration and private women’, in idem Women in Public: between banners and ballots, 1825-1880, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, pp. 19-57.
